Scotland
The poetry and songs of Robert Burns are famous all over the world.
Robert Burns's poems and verses inspired Beethoven, Schumann, Mendelssohn and
other composers who wrote music to them.
The most popular poems of Robert Burns are «The Tree of Liberty», «My Heart's in
the Highlands», «A Red, Red Rose» and many others.
Robert Burns began to write poetry when he was fifteen. He composed verses to the
melodies of old folk-songs, which he had admied from his early childhood. He sang
of the woods, fields and rwonderful valleys of his native land. Burns published some
of his poems in 1786. Their success was complete. And Robert Burns became well
known and popular.
Nessie
· Scotland is also the land of myths and mysteries; every castle
has its ghost. Glamis Castle is said to have nine of them. And
of course everyone knows about the Loch Ness, Monster.
«Nessie» is said to be about six meters long, with a long, thin
neck